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There are traditional methods like electrofishing and tagging. But there are also non-invasive methods such as environmental DNA where you can detect organism prevalence from DNA s…

A year ago, Claude Code's CLI stole the lion's share of my curiosity and attention, but I no longer use it in my day to day. I've moved on to the codex and claude native applicatio…

Automated review gates are a good measure to establish a quality baseline but they don't go much beyond that. They still can't replace strategic review via a human plus an agent. Y…

My guess is they are bound not by capital as much as they are physical resources. Amazon probably has the land, crews, etc. to build out more data centers faster than Anthropic can…

Software development has shifted from writing code to designing the guardrails, feedback loops, and tooling required for agentic systems to implement our tasks efficiently.

It was deceptively easy to build something I could use locally but being a dev I just kept iterating to chase more shiny things I could pack into a service. It turned out to be a t…

I turned off autocomplete in my IDE back in August. Absolutely hate it. I can defer work to an LLM and review it later. I really can't stand autocomplete built into OSX and iOS. Re…

I’m working on my own markdown IDE / Google Docs competitor with an AI agentic editor that coaches on strategy in addition to proof reading. I made it as a side project. Designed i…

Switching to Linux was easier than I thought and the abiity to customize the OS with a coding agent feels like a next-level super power.

We use iNaturalist to curate eDNA observed results on https://ednaexplorer.org

Is this real? The website does not look credible.